Today is the birthday of Con Conrad (Conrad Dober, 1891-1938). A New York native, he started out playing piano in a Harlem movie house as a teenager, and gradually worked his way up to playing Keith vaudeville houses. He published his first song “Down in Dear New Orleans” in 1912, but it wasn’t until the […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:33AM on June 18, 2013